“You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.”
“At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.”
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| George Cadbury, Businessman (1839) |
| Clifton Daniel, Editor (1912) |
| Jay Electronica, Musician (1976) |
| Cass Elliot, Musician (1941) |
| Walter Elliot, Politician (1888) |
| Brian Epstein, Businessman (1934) |
| Jimmy Fallon, Comedian (1974) |
| Frances Farmer, Actress (1913) |
| Thomas John Barnardo, Celebrity (1905) |
| Italo Calvino, Journalist (1985) |
| Francis Darwin, Scientist (1925) |
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| David Starr Jordan, Writer (1931) |